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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...world: Diff'rent Strokes, What's Happening!!, Sanford and Son, Do the Right Thing, even Toni Morrison's Beloved: "We keep the name—it's so totally, invitingly postracial—but make the eponymous ghost more Casper-like."2Colson Whitehead, "The Year of Living...

Cajun South Louisiana

...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

...desirable food.16Philip Henry Gosse, Letters From Alabama (U.S.) Chiefly Relating to Natural History (London: Morgan and Chase, 1859), 234, https://archive.org/details/lettersfromalab00goss/page/234/mode/2up. Significantly, English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, who recorded the overseer's...

Good-Bye to All That?

...with the Stars or fondling an iPhone is a lot more relaxing than confronting the cynical, money-driven political system in Washington and Raleigh. Millions of voters seem convinced that the...